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Liam is a journalist with the NSW bureau of The Australian. He started his journalism career as a photographer before freelancing for the NZ Herald, news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph. Liam was News Corp Australia’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2022 and was awarded a Kennedy Award for coverage of the NSW floods. He has also previously worked as a producer for Channel Seven’s investigative journalism program 7News Spotlight. He can be contacted at MendesL@theaustralian.com.au or Liam.Mendes@protonmail.com.

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JANUARY 14, 2004 : Generic photo of main entrance at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, 14/01/04. Pic Alan Pryke.NSW / Medical / Exterior

Hundreds wrongly told they tested negative

Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital launches an emergency response after informing 400 people they had incorrectly received negative test results.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 24: WA Premier Mark McGowan speaks to media at Dumas House on December 24, 2021 in Perth, Australia. The Western Australian government has implemented new COVID-19 restrictions, following the detection of an additional community COVID-19 case. From 6pm on Thursday, masks will be mandatory in all public indoor settings in the Perth and Peel regions until Tuesday 28 December. Authorities are also recommending people wear masks outdoors when physical distance can't be maintained. Large public events like music festivals have been cancelled during this period. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

WA’s Covid ‘crush and kill’ hopes likely dashed

As the state records five new cases, WA Premier Mark McGowan concedes the February 5 reopening date may become redundant if Covid continues to spread in the state.

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Zane Mellor (Confirmed by go fund me page contact) pictured, one of the victims who has died. Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport jumping castle accident. Five children have now died after a freak accident Tasmania’s Police Commissioner has called “one of the most serious tragedies any of us will see in Tasmania.”

‘My man of the house’: jumping castle victim farewelled

More than 350 people farewelled Zane Mellor, 12, in a moving service one week after a horrific incident left six children dead.

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UPSIZED AND LIGHTENED... Kyle Sandilands at a gun range in Los Angeles with Karl Stefanovic in 2020 during a 60 Minutes interview

Sandilands’ gun fight faces suppression order

Radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands’ fight to own a firearm will be held largely behind closed doors after police applied for a suppression order.

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Google street view of the argyle house in newcastle

Covidiot fined $10k for role in massive outbreak

The man believed to have sparked the Newcastle super-spreading event has been fined $10,000, after he allegedly partied at the Argyle House nightclub despite being ordered to self-isolate.

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NRL star seeks bail change

Embattled NRL star Brett Finch has faced a Sydney court for the first time since he was charged over his involvement in a ‘child abuse chat line’.

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15/12/21: Police raid the home of the Ezzat Alameddine family in Greystanes in Sydneys west. John Feder/The Australian

Crime clan ‘enforcer’ on run after police raid

Police are searching for an alleged ‘enforcer’ of the notorious Alameddine family they accuse of being one of two ‘lieutenants’ linked to an organised crime network.

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Federal MP Craig Thomson and his wife Zoe Arnold leave the Magistrates court in Melbourne.

Ex-MP fails in bid to lift AVOs

Former federal MP Craig Thomson faced a NSW central coast courthouse on Wednesday after being charged with harassment and served two AVO applications last week.

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Fox League commentator Brett Finch. 01/03/19.

NRL star charged over ‘child abuse chat line’

Brett Finch is one of eight men charged over a chat service used to ‘allegedly arrange the dissemination of child abuse material’.

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13/12/2021 Anthony Pinna outside his Liverpool apartment block. Pinna was charged with rioting, assaulting a police officer and various Covid and drug offences in August. He was convicted of all charges ex parte in November, but has filed an annulment application. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Cyber alerts on anti-vax date site

A new dating site for unvaccinated singles which asks applicants to hand over their personal information is run by a man convicted of a violent attack on a police officer.

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